I'll share a funny story first:

So whenever we go to Sinton or Laredo for exchanges, we ride with the assistants and we usually stay for a few days. The APs keep foam mattresses in their house, and we usually will drive to their house and leave our car in their driveway, and then we'll help them load up the truck and we head out. Well, apparently the neighbor who is part of the home-owners association for that neighborhood sent a complaint to the mission office because it "appears to be inappropriate" since there are 2 elders and 2 sisters loading mattresses into cars and leaving together. So, now when we are going to leave we have to meet up at the church instead. ha ha. Oh, silly humans and their sketchy thoughts.. 

Anyway, for the spiritual boost now :)

This morning I was having some negative thoughts about some random things that I was wishing were a little better - mostly self-improvement things that I want to be over, ya know? But then I had this thought that said "why not just be grateful?" And I realized (kind of similarly to last week's thought) that there's a whole lot more to be grateful for than to be stressed about. I really am in one of the best places in life ever, and this is such a unique time, and I AM changing, and there are so many people to bless. So I focused my morning prayers on gratitude and centered my studies on things that would help me feel grateful to the Savior, and it was really cool. :)

That's all! Love you a lot!
Oh, one more story. I had Elote this week. For those who have seen Nacho Libre, it's that corn on a stick that's all covered in white stuff.. They sell it all over here (in loud ice-cream-truck-style vans, with really loud speakers), it's a super mexican thing, but I'd never had enough guts to try it. It wasn't worth repeating, but it was an adventure :) I'll send a picture next week.

Until later!

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Hermana Reynolds